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Rh they feed upon, which were much admired; and two on European insects. She died at Amsterdam, 1717.

L'Advocat's Biog.

for her licentiousness and cruelty. She was put to death, A. D. 48.

painting portraits from nature, she advanced the glory of the art, having in this surpassed her mother, a very fine painter. Abecedario Pitt.

the daughter of Chaja Aiass, a native of the Western Tartary, who left that country to push his fortune in Hindostan, the usual resourse of the needy Tartars of the north. He left home privately, with only one sorry horse, and a very small sum of money, the produce of his effects. Placing his wife upon the horse, he walked by her side. She happened to be pregnant, and could ill endure the fatigues of so great a journey. This scanty pittance of money was soon expended, they had even subsisted some days upon charity, when they arrived on the skirts of the great solitudes, which separate Tartary from the dominions of the family of Timur, in India. No house was there to cover them from the inclemency of the weather; no hand to relieve their wants.